Win 120 credits by answering riddle

[lupus_42]

Inspired by admintwo's riddle question post, I'd like to do this myself. If this is in any way rude or against forum rules or something else I'm not aware of, please don't penalize me; I'm scared! lol

Oh, by the way, the riddle is not made by me, and I'm not claiming it as my own.

First off, the rules.

• You pay my account 25 credits. If you fail to pay me, your answer will be invalid, regardless of its accuracy.
• You PM me with the answer. You can post a reply saying that you sent me a PM, but do not post your answer in the topic.
• I give you 0 credits if you get it wrong and 120 credits if you get it right. You get one try.
• Please, please, please do not tell another user the answer.
• This offer expires February 13th, 2008, at a time of my choice, GMT-7. Subject to change without notice, although any PM sent to me before I submit a "offer closed" post is valid.
• If I fail to pay when you got it right, you have permission to contact an administrator, who can read the content of the PM's and receive the correct answer from me. Evidence of this post gives permission for an administrator to ban me permanently from X10Hosting Forum and its hosting service if I failed to pay up to a legitimate answer.

OK, and the riddle is...

You depart from your town to walk to a town of a distant friend's, when you come across a junction in the road. Two identical twins stand guard at the fork; this fork splits your road into two roads, one that goes left, and one that goes right. You know as a fact that one of these twins always tells the truth and the other always tells a lie. They permit you to ask only one of them only one question. What question do you ask which one to determine which road to travel?

 

[Blockis2]

PM'd Yeah.

 

[dirtracer36]

Hi, I PM'd you also. This sounds like a contest. Yay :biggrin:

 

[tausha]

So basicly no matter what if you get the answer wrong you lose 25 credits.

 

[dirtracer36]

So basicly no matter what if you get the answer wrong you lose 25 credits.

I look at it as, if you get the correct answer, you get 120 credits.

 

[lolerlol]

PM'd

 

[luckless]

PM'ed you.
regards.

 

[satbir]

Sent 25 credits and PMed correct answer. Plz send my 120 points..

 

[Blockis2]

I still haven't gotten credits yet, or told that i got it wrong.

 

[HomerJ]

I still haven't gotten credits yet, or told that i got it wrong.

Same here

 

[luckless]

I still haven't gotten credits yet, or told that i got it wrong.

Same here .. though i know my answer is correct!

 

[lupus_42]

Sorry, just caught up. Sent replies today. Two of the six contestants won.

• lolerlol got the correct answer!
• Blockis2 got the correct answer!
• satbir got an incorrect answer.
• luckless got an incorrect answer.
• dirtracer36 got an incorrect answer.
• HomerJ got an incorrect answer.

It turns out that I lost quite a bit on this, so I'm officially ending this opportunity at 12:00 AM GMT-7, or 7:00 AM GMT, no exceptions.
NOTE: It appears I forgot something, a little loophole I wan't prepared for in my rules. I really don't want to be banned for running out of credits; therefore, I have appended a new rule. There is a maximum of three winners. The first three that submit the correct answer receive 120 credits each. Additionally, it is important to note that, in reality, winners receive 95 credits each; the 25 spent on entering the contest is not redeemed.

 

[dirtracer36]

The problem is, you yourself don't know the correct answer to this riddle. This riddle is old. I gave you the correct answer. You said we know one tells a lie and one tells the truth, it doesn't say that we know which one is which. because you don't know which one is which, how could you ask the liar a question , if we don't know? Enjoy the 25 credits.

Your answer doesn't tell which way you are going to end up going in the fork in the road.
Your answer:

If you were to ask the lying twin, he could claim that the truthful twin would hold his silence, or point in a random direction, etc. The lying twin is not limited to just boolean answers.

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[lupus_42]

Actually, I looked into former discussion on http://ofc.berkeley.edu/ , and the answer that was determined to be most final was submitted by lolerlol and Blockis2.

So, sorry. If you're that concerned about it, I can return to you the 25 credits; heck, I'll give you 120 if you care about it enough; it's not that big a deal to me, I guess.

Oh, and by the way, [closed].

 

[dirtracer36]

No, it's not a big deal, i'm not trying to make it one. Don't worry about it. You can keep the credits. I lost. I can click on your rep and give you 25 more. :biggrin:

 

[lupus_42]

No thanks. I'm not trying to make a big deal, either. This obviously didn't work out (I lost quite a bit of credits, not that I had much to start out with; I just started posting very seldom on this board).

 

[admintwo]

lupus_42


I appreciate you trying what I tried. I like people who think like me. Nice to meet you through x10Hosting, I hope your stay is welcoming.

I am here to help you out on the post you made at first.

If my rules were paid attention to, you would have made a great deal of credits.

You let them answer a question. For 25 credits. (good)
You let them PM it to you. (good)

You did lose credits. (Sorry)
You did not have a good Disclaimer, or Fine Print just to say. (sorry)

I enjoy watching people suceed from what I have succeded in. I am here to tell you what you can change so that you can make more credits, not lose credits.






This should be added to the next Topic you make like this:

Change or add this to your rules next time...

1. You pay # of credits, to answer a question.

2. A percentage of credits is given to the winner and the rest is given to the one that posted the question.

3. You answer the question once, and only once.

4. The winner will receive this % of all the given credits. (you made it at first, so that people can answer the question, and anyone that gets it correct gets a great number of credits)
a. Change it so that all the credits put into the contest are added together.
b. Make it so that the first person that sends you the credits and gets the answer correct will get a % of the total credits and you get the rest.
c. The ones who lost their credits from answering incorrectly, are out of luck no other way to put it.

Sorry was just trying to help you at your mistakes so that you may learn from them, for next time.

My New Question Post, for credits, might be a better example then the first Topic I made for people receiving credits.

Hope I helped in some way.

 

[lupus_42]

Thanks for the advice, although I probably won't be doing more of these (I don't really know too many riddles). I was planning on answering your question, but I had absolutely no clue what it was, so I didn't feel like spending for no reason .

Ooooh... now I have to abide to the rules before posting. I hope I don't have to do this every time....

Soooo... thanks again.
~lupus

 

[stunna]

Interesting.....